When the Wind Is in the South and Other Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0931170257 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rolvaag should have appeared in the English language long ago. All readers, regardless of background, will experience the art of storytelling - oral in style - as if they had been first told in a living room or from a tree stump in the backyard and not created in the cerebral setting of a private study. The shorter prose works (stories, tales, and sketches) by Ole E. The translations are wholly faithful, with the needed adaptation to English usage, and they read easily and interestingly. Butthe collectionwas worth the waiting. --Lloyd Hustvedt, Norwegian-American Historical AssociationThis translation is a highly commendable enterprise, bringing to American readers a block of relatively unknown Rolvaag material in the
This wonderful collection of crisply translated short stories by Ole Rolvaag Jay R. Clasen This wonderful collection of crisply translated short stories by Ole Rolvaag shows a work in progress as he writes stories of early Norwegian emigrants in America. He tells of friendship with humor and pathos. The three buddies who rival each other in fishing expertise, the young spinster who takes humorous revenge on the dandy who spurned her and others in these stories are characters out of real life--normal people dealing with everyday life. It is a quick read an. "Five Stars" according to Tundra-dogg. great book. "good read of short stories" according to Kristin V. Garey. wonderful glimpse into lives of early Scandinavian immigrants; short stories by O E Rolvaag, author of Giants in the Earth.
This collection is a fitting complement to Rolvaag's sweeping novels of American frontier life. Written by the author of the Norwegian-American classic "Giants in the Earth", these six short stories reveal in miniature O.E. Rolvaag scholars and admirers, high school and college teachers, and anyone with an interest in immigrant fiction and the American West will want to read these stories by one of America's most famous authors.. In these stories - never before published in English - we meet several unforgettable characters, including three self-assured but happless fishermen, a jilted but vengeful farm girl, a new country